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Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520038630
Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520312739
Author : David Levin,Charles Sellers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125842861X
Author : Michael Paul Winship
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037335455
Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic of Puritanism square itself with the contrary assumptions of the early Enlightenment? Finding themselves in an intellectual world largely hostile to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility?
Author : Timothy Morton,Nigel Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521120876
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) In this volume of interdisciplinary essays, leading scholars examine the radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to the French Revolution. They chart continuities between the two periods and examine the recuperation of ideas and texts from the earlier period in the 1790s and beyond. Contributors utilize a variety of approaches and concepts: from gender studies, the cultural history of food and diet and the history of political discourse, to explorations of the theatre, philosophy and metaphysics. This volume argues that the radical agendas of the mid-seventeenth century, intended to change society fundamentally, did not disappear throughout the long eighteenth-century only to be resuscitated at its close. Rather, through close textual analysis, these essays indicate a more continuous transmission. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English literature 18th century History and criticism, Radicalism in literature, English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism, English literature 19th century History and criticism, Revolutionary literature, English History and criticism, Politics and literature Great Britain History, Radicalism Great Britain History.
Author : Stephen Foster
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838266
In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who never decided whether they were the vanguard or the remnant. Indeed, in Foster's analysis, changes in New England Puritanism after the first decades of settlement did not indicate secularization and decline but instead were part of a pattern of change, conflict, and accomodation that had begun in England. He views the Puritans' own claims of declension as partisan propositions in an internal controversy as old as the Puritan movement itself. The result of these stresses and adaptations, he argues, was continued vitality in American Puritanism during the second half of the seventeenth century. Foster draws insights from a broad range of souces in England and America, including sermons, diaries, spiritual autobiographies, and colony, town, and court records. Moreover, his presentation of the history of the English and American Puritan movements in tandem brings out the fatal flaws of the former as well as the modest but essential strengths of the latter.
Author : Nicholas Phillipson,Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521392426
Inspired by the work of intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, this 1993 collection explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain.
Author : Knud Haakonssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521029872
A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.
Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139429849
David Loewenstein's Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades. By examining a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers - John Lilburne, Winstanley the Digger and Milton, amongst others - he reveals how radical Puritans struggled with the contradictions and ambiguities of the English Revolution and its political regimes. His portrait of a faction-riven, violent seventeenth-century revolutionary culture is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of these turbulent decades and their aftermath. By placing Milton's great poems in the context of the period's radical religious politics, it should be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars.
Author : Professor Catherine Gimelli Martin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409476184
Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan poet" and reexamining the surprisingly tenuous Whig paradigm upon which this history has been built. Catherine Martin not only questions the current habit of "lumping" Milton with the religious Puritans but agrees with a long line of literary scholars who find his values and lifestyle markedly inconsistent with their beliefs and practices. Pursuing this argument, Martin carefully reexamines the whole spectrum of seventeenth-century English Puritanism from the standpoint of the most recent and respected scholarship on the subject. Martin also explores other, more secular sources of Milton's thought, including his Baconianism, his Christian Stoic ethics, and his classical republicanism; she establishes the importance of these influences through numerous direct references, silent but clear citations, and typical tropes. All in all, Milton among the Puritans presents a radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity; it shows that many received ideas about the "Puritan Milton" are neither as long-established as most scholars believe nor as historically defensible as most literary critics still assume, and resituates Milton's great poems in the period when they were written, the Restoration.
Author : Catherine Gimelli Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317095989
Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan poet" and reexamining the surprisingly tenuous Whig paradigm upon which this history has been built. Catherine Martin not only questions the current habit of "lumping" Milton with the religious Puritans but agrees with a long line of literary scholars who find his values and lifestyle markedly inconsistent with their beliefs and practices. Pursuing this argument, Martin carefully reexamines the whole spectrum of seventeenth-century English Puritanism from the standpoint of the most recent and respected scholarship on the subject. Martin also explores other, more secular sources of Milton's thought, including his Baconianism, his Christian Stoic ethics, and his classical republicanism; she establishes the importance of these influences through numerous direct references, silent but clear citations, and typical tropes. All in all, Milton among the Puritans presents a radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity; it shows that many received ideas about the "Puritan Milton" are neither as long-established as most scholars believe nor as historically defensible as most literary critics still assume, and resituates Milton's great poems in the period when they were written, the Restoration.
Author : Justin Champion
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0719057140
"The book argues that Toland shaped the republican tradition after the Glorious Revolution into a practical and politically viable programme, focused not on destroying the monarchy, but on reforming public religion and the Church of England. The book also examines how Toland used his social intimacy with a wide circle of men and women (ranging from Prince Eugene of Savoy to Robert Harley) to distribute his ideas in private. It also explores the connections between Toland's erudition and print culture, arguing that his intellectual project was aimed at compromising the authority of Christian knowledge as much as the political power of the Church."--Jacket.
Author : Philip Connell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199269587
'Secular Chains' uses close readings of the work of a range of canonical poets to re-evaluate the relationship between English literary culture and the political challenges to religious authority that emerged in the wake of the civil wars, and which culminated in the intellectual ferment of the early Enlightenment.
Author : John 1823-1886 Tulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1022457179
In this important work of religious history, Tulloch examines the origins and impact of Puritanism in England from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Drawing on a wealth of sources, he explores the key figures and movements that shaped this influential religious movement. Tulloch's insightful analysis sheds light on the cultural and political context in which Puritanism emerged, and highlights its lasting impact on English society and culture. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of religion in England and the development of Protestantism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sarah Ellenzweig
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804769792
The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig aims to redress this scholarly lacuna, arguing that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly supported aspects of institutional religion. Analyzing works by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, she foregrounds a strand of the English freethinking tradition that was suspicious of revealed religion yet often strongly opposed to the open denigration of Anglican Christianity and its laws. By exposing the contradictory and volatile status of categories like belief and doubt this book participates in the larger argument in Enlightenment studies—as well as in current scholarship on the condition of modernity more generally—-that religion is not so simply left behind in the shift from the pre-modern to the modern world.